I've given up on trying to use Ubuntu on Sparc and have moved on to using Debian, which is actually working and supported.
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Quinn Plattel <[email protected]> wrote: > Apparantly, even though a fix has been made, there is still no way to > install or upgrade to karmic on sparc. > > If you attempt upgrade, upstart will fail or crash the system. > > If you try to install the system from CD, booting from CD will fail with > a "Fast Data Access MMU miss" because not enough memory is allocated to > hold both the kernel and the initrd on newer ubuntu releases - Ubuntu > Hardy 8.04 was the last release to be able to boot from cd. Lucid and > up have solved the memory issue of the cd bootloader, but it does not > seem to load the sd driver so you cannot access any block devices even > though you have the correct scsi/ide driver loaded. > > The only solution left is to install Hardy and then do an LTS upgrade to > Lucid - mind you that you might have an issue with apparmor so you > should probably remove that package before upgrading. > > Quinn > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436758 > > Title: > nih: nih_alloc() doesn't align returned pointer for picky platforms > like sparc > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/libnih/+bug/436758/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436758 Title: nih: nih_alloc() doesn't align returned pointer for picky platforms like sparc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libnih/+bug/436758/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
